Back when we were newlyweds, there was the song, 'Money for Nothin'. It was about how wonderful it would be to, 'play the guitar on the MTV'. It included the line, 'Money for nothin' and your chicks for free'.

Mr. Thipu, always the practical person, heard this line as, 'checks for free'. Bless his heart.

Too cute I always heard it as "and your kicks for free"

To my little brother (who was much littler at the time) it was chips for free ... 'cuz, y'know, who doesn't want free potato chips?

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It's alright, man. I'm only bleeding, man. Stay hungry, stay free, and do the best you can. ~Gaslight Anthem

Back when we were newlyweds, there was the song, 'Money for Nothin'. It was about how wonderful it would be to, 'play the guitar on the MTV'. It included the line, 'Money for nothin' and your chicks for free'.

Mr. Thipu, always the practical person, heard this line as, 'checks for free'. Bless his heart.

Too cute I always heard it as "and your kicks for free"

To my little brother (who was much littler at the time) it was chips for free ... 'cuz, y'know, who doesn't want free potato chips?

I don't remember the artist, but the song that I hear as "Mice Aroma" I am informed by my children is "My Sharona".

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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Common sense is not a gift, but a curse. Because thenyou have to deal with all the people who don't have it. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

My first exposure to "Help Me, Rhonda" was Johnny Rivers' cover in the '70s. I thought he was singing "Everybody help everybody." I didn't find out the real words until a friend told me about a party for her classmate Rhonda where they sang that song to her.

If you can find Gavin Edwards' books, they're a hoot. One is "'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy," another is "He's Got the Whole World in His Pants," and there's at least one other. Many of the misheard lyrics are illustrated with very clever cartoons. He's got "Mice aroma" for "My Sharona" illustrated with a perfume bottle in the shape of a mouse and labeled "Infestation by Calvin Klein."

There were several people who thought, 'The girl with kaleidoscope eyes' was 'The girl with colitis goes by'.

Count me as one of them.In the Bruno Mars song there's a line "is it the look in your eyes, or is it this dancing juice".Which I though was either "dancing shoes" or "dancing Jew", and thought to myself - hey, did Woody Allen write this song?

Singer John Prine tells a story about a woman who requested the "Happy Enchilada Song." He kept telling her that he'd never written anything like that, but she insisted and finally quoted the lyrics to him. "It's a happy enchilada and you think you're gonna drown." The actual lyrics: "It's a half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown."

John tells the story here: That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round, starting at about 2:30. He also mentions a Mondegreens of his own, involving some misheard Fats Domino lyrics. The video is of a performance at a high school auditorium, so there's no off-color language.